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A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

This video explores what alien life might actually look like if evolution, physics, and planetary environments are allowed to do their full work. Instead of defaulting to humanoid creatures, it looks ...

From mosquitoes to bed bugs, parasites have always stuck close to humanity, and they continue to shape our lives to this day, ...

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A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

Stars Reach is the new MMO from Ralph Koster, creative lead on Star Wars Galaxies, and it is a fully physically simulated sci ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...